Purpose

The Financial Analyst role is within Operations Finance supporting the Manufacturing, Engineering & Contracting organization. The job holder will report to the Finance Manager, New Product Introductions.  NPI responsibilities include financial analysis and developing cost estimates with manufacturing sites, external third party manufacturers and supporting analysis with various AbbVie organizations including Commercial, R&D, Procurement, Science & Technology, Brand Teams and others required to meet pipeline and launch requirements. This role interacts with finance and business management internal to Operations and across AbbVie functions.   

Responsibilities

• Support process of cost estimates for New Product Introductions, ensuring accurate and timely information for strategic decision making and communication to Senior management 

• Provide support to various Operations business groups to enable effective management through project planning, analysis and risks/opportunities modeling.  

• Supports planning and reporting of Pipeline products.  Activities include financially justified capital RCEs, make vs buy analysis, review of product financial flows, SAP launch implementation and standard cost development. 

• Consolidate Operations costs from various functions to support collaboration agreements. 

• Ability to review, understand and explain complex concepts in order to propose financial options and recommendations to senior management. 

• Actively participate and work in cross-functional groups including site engineers, purchasing, S&T, brand leaders and project managers to track developments towards global pipeline launches. 

• Drive process and system improvements to ensure continued evolution of the pipeline and New Product Introductions. 

• Ensure adequate financial and system controls are established and maintained consistent with AbbVie policies and procedures as well as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.